With the subtitle Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java, this is a hands-on introduction to big data access, showing how Spring Data makes it relatively easy to build bridge applications to such technologies as NoSQL and Hadoop. You’ll also discover the features Spring Data adds to Spring’s existing JPA and JDBC support for writing RDBMS-based data access layers.

Why is information security so dysfunctional? Are you wasting the money you spend on security? How can you make more effective security decisions? This book explains why professionals have taken to studying economics, not cryptography--and why you should, too. And why security breach notices are the best thing to ever happen to information security.

With the subtitle A Real World Project - Case Study Approach this book walks you through creating an arcade-style Prison Break game app—top to bottom—for an Android smartphone or tablet. It teaches you the unique characteristics and challenges of creating an Arcade style game And it provides you with the full source code for this sample game app.

All the tools you need for predictive analytics are available in Microsoft Excel. The knowledge and skills ayou need to make use of them are in this book. This is Conrad Carlberg’s eleventh book about quantitative analysis using Microsoft Excel, which he still regards with a mix of awe and exasperation.

To keep pace with today’s connected customers, your company must become a connected company. That means deeply engaging with workers, partners, and customers, changing how work is done, how you measure success, and how performance is rewarded. It requires a new way of thinking about your company: less like a machine to be controlled, and more like a complex, dynamic system.

Fully updated and recast for the newly released C++11 standard, this authoritative and comprehensive introduction to C++ will help you to learn the language fast, and to use it in modern, highly effective ways. Highlighting today’s best practices, the authors show how to use both the core language and its standard library to write efficient, readable, and powerful code.

Guides you through the creation of a mobile web app. You'll put the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills you learn into practice, giving you first-hand experience that will be useful in developing your own web apps for Android smartphones and tablets. Throughout this book, you will learn new skills and bring them together in a web app that runs on the Android platform as well as other mobile platforms.

Assuming no prior knowledge this colorful book begins by showing how to install a free web server, the PHP interpreter and MySQL database server to create an environment in which you can produce data-driven server-side web pages. Provides syntax-highlighted code for each example. See our review of SQL In Easy Steps by the same author in this series.

An example-driven guide for administrators managing networks of Windows servers and desktops. With 150 practical examples, including ready-to-reuse scripts and techniques, you'll learn the ins and outs of automating WMI via PowerShell v3. You'll also find deep coverage of all aspects of Windows administration, including IIS, DNS and Hyper-V.

CSS3 brings changes, additions, and improvements across a range of new modules that allow you to work with colors and fonts accurately and use media queries to ensure correct styling across a multitude of devices. The new technologies bring more tags to learn and more avenues for things to go wrong. This collection of solutions to the most common CSS3 problems contains sample code.